Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1887 — THE POLITICAL FIELD. [ARTICLE]

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

Washington dispatches say that Speaker Carlisle and Secretary Fairchild were in consultation with the President Tuesday, at the latter’s country residence. The consultation was held, it is said, for the purpose of devising plans for the reduction of the Treasury surplus—or fora reduction of taxes that produce the surplus. Delegates to the number of 925 attended the Massachusetts Prohibition State Convention at Worcester. A telegram was sent to Neal Dow, giving the number nresent and saying: “Cheer up, old man, your children are growing to a mighty height. ” The convention made the following nominations: For Governor, W. H. Earle, of Worcester; for Lieutenant Governor, Dr. John Blackmer, of Springfield; for Secretary of State, Amos E. Hall, of Chelsea; for Treasurer, J. H. Kilborn, of Lee; for Attorney General, Allen Coffin, of Nantucket; for Auditor, E. N. Stowe. The platform accuses the liquor men of bribing Legislatures and murdering its opponents; declaring against licensing and local options; insists on the necessity of a third party; declares that the Democratic party makes no pretensions in the direction of prohibition, and that the Republican party does nothing else, and, in conclusion, it demands the immediate repeal of all license laws and the submission of a constitutional prohibition amendment to the people. The committee reported a plank demanding the ballot for women. This created the only exciting ep sode of the day, and, after a hot discussion, and in order to compromise with the anti-woman suffragists, the plank was modified to the extent that the Legislature should submit the question of municipal suffrage to women. The State Convention of the Union Labor and Greenback party of Pennsylvania was held at Williamsport. The platform of the Union Labor party adopted at Cincinnati in February last was unanimously adopted, as was also a resolution denouncing the alleged utter disregard by corporations of the provisions of the State Constitution. Charles S. Keyser, of Philadelphia, was nominated for Supreme Court Judge, and H. L Bunker, of Hollidaysburg, for State Treasurer. Civil Service Commissioner Obebly has sent, in response to an inquiry from Charles N. Rowland, Chairman of the Civil Service Board of Examiners at Cincinnati, a communication embodying the views of the Commission respecting the right of a postmaster to remove carriers and clerks, except for causes named in the civil service law. “That every carrier and clerk,” the Commission says, “in the Cincinnati Postoffice might bo legally removed for cause is a proposition on which you need no information. It is, therefore, concluded that you wish to know whether, in the opinion of tno Commission, efficient carriers and clerks of good character may be legally removed for partisan reasons— becaus 3 they do not agree in politics with the postmaster. The Commission has therefore stated, and now repeats, that the power of removal is unrestricted. except that a removal may not be legally made for any one of the following causes : 1. Because a person in the service has refused to contribute to a political fund or for a political purpose. 2. Because a person has refused to render political service. 3. Because a person has refused to permit the appointing officer or any other person in the civil service to coerce his political action. For any other cause any person in the civil service may be removed legally, and a person illegally removed for any of tho causes named can not, under any provision of the civil service act, demand restoration. The law fairly construed, they say, is that entrance to tho classified civil service shah bo upon the merit of the applicant without regard to his political opinions or affiliations, and that continuance in the service shall be upon the employe’s merit, without regard to his political opinions or affiliations. Therefore the appointing officer who appoints or refuses to appoint an applicant because the applicant does or dogs not entertain certain political opinions violates the law, and an appointing officer who removes an employe because the employe refuses to render political service in accordance with the wishes of the appointing officer because he is not a political partisan of tho appointing officer also violates the law.